Ageing, Crime And Society

by Wahidin; Azrini

• ISBN13: 9781843921523
• ISBN10: 1843921529
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-10-12
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

The relationship between ageing and crime has been a much neglected issue, the focus rather being on youth and crime. This books aims to redress this imbalance, bringing together a group of leading authorities to address key issues on the subject of crime and ageing. It considers older people as both victims and perpetrators of crime, and also examines the conditions faced by older prisoners. The book draws upon both criminology and gerontology, as well as sociology and social policy, to help understand the complex but under-studied relationship that older men and women have with crime. The book seeks to re-theorize both crime and ageing to expose how violence against the aged may be normalized within families and care homes, and draws links with empirical research and the policy making process in relation to the aged as bothvictims and offenders. Effective preventive strategies for both theft and violence in public and private spheres are identified, as well as bespoke programmes for older people in the criminal justice system. Ageing, Crime and Society makes a powerful argument for the concept of age to be added to the more familiar analytic categories of gender, race and class in relation to understanding crime.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Foreword by Lord Ramsbotham	xv
1 Ageing, crime and society: an invitation to a criminology	1	(16)
Azrini Wahidin and Maureen Cain
2 Rethinking criminology: the case of 'ageing studies'	17	(18)
Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin
3 Crime, abuse, and social harm: towards an integrated approach	35	(18)
Mike Brogden and Preeti Nijhar
4 Crime and older people: the research agenda	53	(18)
Judith Phillips
5 'As if I just didn't exist' — elder abuse and neglect in nursing homes	71	(19)
Thomas Görgen
6 The realities of elder abuse	90	(17)
Gary Fitzgerald
7 Deconstructing distraction burglary: an ageist offence?	107	(17)
Stuart Lister and David Wall
8 Reassuring older people in relation to fear of crime	124	(15)
Alan Burnett
9 Local responses to elder abuse: building effective prevention strategies	139	(15)
Jill Manthorpe
10 Global developments in relation to elder abuse	154	(17)
Bridget Penhale
11 'No problems - old and quiet': imprisonment in later life	171	(22)
Azrini Wahidin
12 'Unregarded age in corners thrown'	193	(17)
Debby Jaques
13 Managing the special needs of ageing prisoners in the United States	210	(20)
Ron Aday
14 Older offenders and community penalties: a framework for thinking	230	(18)
Gaynor Bramhall
15 Towards a better government for older people and the policy implications in the criminal justice system	248	(16)
Mervyn Eastman
Index	264